Fringe Game History Podcast

Jeremy Penner

5.0 (3)
VIDEO GAMES

Fringe Game History Podcast

A podcast dedicated to finding out where outsider games come from.

08/15/2018

Episode 6 - Shawn Hargreaves

Shawn Hargreaves talks about the Allegro game programming library and the community that sprung up around it in the late 1990s. We talk about what happens when your hobby project accidentally turns into something with a life of its own, the inexplicable popularity of games involving the murder of Barney the Dinosaur, and the vital role of accessible tooling in providing a path to learning.

1h 6m
03/25/2018

Episode 5 - Leonard Richardson

Leonard Richardson talks about a number of free and open-source games he made, as well as his time running a goofy BBS as a kid. We discuss the experience of having dozens of strangers create their own riffs of a game he tossed together in a couple of days, writing interactive fiction as a stepping stone to writing non-interactive fiction, and Nethack code patches as a form of fanfiction.

1h 31m
11/04/2017

Episode 4 - Jonah Davidson

Jonah Davidson talks about his time as part of the rpg2knet RPG Maker community. We talk about the desire to push the limits of the tool's strange constraints, the rite of passage of dealing with terrible translations, and how a community can spend a lot of effort trying to emulate the games it loves, only to slowly discover that the games that break out are the ones that are nothing like them.

1h 16m
09/02/2017

Episode 3 - Roman Banias

My childhood best friend Roman Banias talks about the games he made for fun as a young child. We discuss the magic and wonder of type-in programming books, the home computer as a toy, the act of creation as a natural extension of childhood play, and the Alien Zit Cinematic Universe.

1h 21m
07/27/2017

Episode 2 - Phil Salvador

Phil Salvador of The Obscuritory talks about his tenure as an administrator of the Mario Fan Games Galaxy. We discuss the driving energy behind goofy joke games, the fragile nature of early internet communities, the interconnected nature of fan sites, and Waligie, a community icon born from a random poster's terrible spelling.

1h 11m
06/23/2017

Episode 1 - Kirk Israel

Kirk Israel talks about JoustPong, a game he has made and remade many times over the years. We dive into the homebrew community surrounding the Atari 2600 in the early 2000s, the strain of obsessive assembly coding on relationships, and the challenge of finding a supportive community.

1h 23m

6 Episodes

5

out of 5

3 Ratings

Thoughtful interviews

12/04/2018

LE M

I love how this podcast peers into little-known, insular communities and finds the intense creativity and community-building going on inside them. Amazing work.
yes

04/04/2018

slmjkdbtl

oh yes

A podcast dedicated to finding out where outsider games come from.

Creator

Jeremy Penner
Years Active

2017 - 2018
Episodes

6
Rating

Clean
Copyright

© Copyright 2017 Jeremy Penner, licensed under Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-SA.
Show Website

Fringe Game History Podcast